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2021.12: Clarify breaking change

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Franck Nijhof 2021-12-11 11:43:35 +01:00
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@ -356,6 +356,28 @@ for this is recommended and remains available.
In case you used this to change how, for example, a cover or door contact
entity is shown, you can now change that by editing the entity in the UI.
For these cases, customizing the `device_class` is no longer needed.
A small explanation why it has been removed:
With customize, one is changing the state machine directly, without any checks.
This comes at a risk. Additionally, for many use cases (like: name, icon,
device class) one should edit the entity via the UI instead, which is
possible for the greater part of the entities nowadays.
The old customize UI is confusing in many ways and has a level of power that,
if wielded incorrectly, it can have unforeseen consequences.
Someone found the customize first, and then things
are out of sync throughout the UI, as the internal entity registry would show
the old values.
The customize UI also relied on setting up an include and YAML configuration to
begin with; which already made it an advanced feature.
Therefore, the customize UI was removed and remains available as an advanced
YAML feature, additionally we have added the capability, to adjust
the common `device_class` changes using the "Show as" feature while
editing the entity from UI.
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